The various levels that users get to with more posts serve a secondary purpose, different permissions can be given at each level. Neuro is so high that he is able to pick his own name, he just happens to like the 1D X, but he could pick a 600mm f/4 II if he wanted. Of course, all of you with >7K posts would get it too

DrChemE

Learned a lot from this post! I have just been enabled to change my profile info as well so gotta get to work. Lurking around for about a year, now finally joined! Thanks for the wonderful posts everyone.

The AE-1 was my first serious camera, I bought it new in 1978, my mum signed the finance agreement for it, I still have the camera, and the finance agreement! It was £220 which equates to about £1,250, or around $2,000 in today's money, I paid for it with a paper round, actually two paper rounds! Now bearing that in mind can those vocal few stop moaning about the price of the 6D?

Unfortunately I don't have my mum anymore, but I will never sell that camera.

I have two or three of the AE-1 program models, they don't get the chirp-squeek like the AE-1's have. I can often find them with a 50mm f/1.8 FD lens for $5 at garage sales. I have spare batteries, flash units, and I clean them up and test them to make great cameras for photography students. They are cheap, and good learning cameras. Our local junior college has a very strong photography program. I also have a bunch of Minolta SRT101's, but they tend to have reliability issues, particulary susceptable to lens issues.